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Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films.
Gene Kelly, another major innovator in filmed dance, said that "the history of dance on film begins with Astaire". Beyond film and television, many classical dancers and choreographers, Rudolf Nureyev, Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jackson, Gregory Hines, Mikhail Baryshnikov, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins among them, also acknowledged his importance and influence.
Astaire was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Johanna "Ann" (née Geilus) and Frederic "Fritz" Austerlitz (born September 8, 1868, as Friedrich Emanuel Austerlitz). Astaire's mother was born in the United States to Lutheran German immigrants from East Prussia and Alsace, while Astaire's father was born in Linz, Austria, to Jewish parents who had converted to Catholicism.
Actors: Ben Matheny (actor), Owen Hornstein (writer), Owen Hornstein (director), Dawn Spatz (editor), Dawn Spatz (producer), James Roe (writer), Jacob McManus (actor),
Genres: Short,Actors: Mark Hanson (actor), Summer Selby (actress), John Carstarphen (writer), John Carstarphen (editor), John Carstarphen (director), Phyllis Cicero (actress), Angela Wilson (actress), Rebecca Rice (producer), Lloyd Barnes (actor), Laurel Hoitsma (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Henrique Amaral (actor), Henrique Amaral (costume designer), Bruno Garcia (actor), Heitor Dhalia (actor), Paulo Caldas (producer), Paulo Caldas (producer), Lírio Ferreira (producer), Virginia Cavendish (actress), Rivaldo Casado (actor), Rivaldo Casado (costume designer), Renata Pinheiro (actress), Paulo Falcão (actor), Marcelo Pinheiro (actor), Sandra Arraes (writer), Beto Normal (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Short, Thriller,Actors: Christine Gouze-Rénal (producer), Corinne Touzet (actress), Michel Tugot-Doris (actor), Lino Ventura (actor), Yves Vincent (actor), Guy Marchand (actor), Jean-Pierre Castaldi (actor), Niels Arestrup (actor), Roger Hanin (actor), Jean-Claude de Goros (actor), Sam Karmann (actor), Michel Piccoli (actor), Philippe Caroit (actor), Claude Bolling (composer), Roger Hanin (writer),
Plot: Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charleston, Foxtrot and Boston. Among beautiful women, local pimps and Mussolini's spies brush each other on the dance floor, and in the streets. A police inspector is charged with a difficult task, to clean-up the city streets - just when bodies start falling around, as the Mafia and the spies tend each other deadly traps.
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: Melvyn Hayes (actor), Wilfrid Hyde-White (actor), Bruce Boa (actor), Keenan Wynn (actor), Peter Cushing (actor), Oliver Reed (actor), Sylvaine Charlet (actress), George Fowler (writer), Peter Curran (writer), Peter Curran (director), Peter Curran (editor), Hilary Pritchard (actress), Bruce Kenny (actor), Elizabeth Curran (producer), David Kawandami (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Gene Kelly (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), William Bailey (actor), Feodor Chaliapin Jr. (actor), William Frawley (actor), Rex Evans (actor), Fred Astaire (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Hume Cronyn (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), Peter Lawford (actor),
Plot: In heaven, showman 'Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.' (qv) fondly recalls his first Broadway revue, the Ziegfeld Follies of 1907. Even from heaven, he is hoping that he can, for one last time, create that same magic by mounting one last follies. As he thinks about who he would like to appear in these follies, he is assisted in realizing his fantasy, at least in his own mind, by such luminaries as 'Fred Astaire' (qv), 'Edward Arnold (I)' (qv), 'Lucille Ball', 'Marion Bell' (qv), 'Lucille Bremer' (qv), 'Fanny Brice' (qv), 'Cyd Charisse' (qv), 'Judy Garland' (qv), 'Kathryn Grayson' (qv), 'Lena Horne' (qv), 'Gene Kelly (I)' (qv), 'James Melton (I)' (qv), 'Victor Moore (I)' (qv), 'Virginia O'Brien' (qv), 'Red Skelton' (qv), 'Esther Williams (I)' (qv), 'Keenan Wynn' (qv), and, of course, a bevy of beautiful girls.
Keywords: 1940s, actress, bag-of-golf-clubs, ballerina, ballet, ballroom-dancing, bird-on-shoulder, bubble, camera-shot-of-a-woman's-legs, carouselActors: Nathaniel Shilkret (composer), Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson (actor), Mark Daniels (actor), Max Terr (composer), Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas (actor), Robert Blake (actor), Leon Bourgeau (editor), Billy 'Froggy' Laughlin (actor), Janet Burston (actress), Tommy McFarland (actor), Janet Burston (actress), Sam Baerwitz (writer), Sam Baerwitz (director), Frank Ward (actor), Joan Blake (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Family, Short,